Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 3. (Budapest 1905)
Theobald, F. V.: A catalogue of the Culicidae in the Hungarian National Museum with description of new genera and species
106 FRED. Y. THEOBALD den brown border-bristles ; metanotum deep brown ; pleurae and prothoraeic lobes densely scaled with flat white scales. Abdomen black scaled with scattered creamy white scales all over but forming prominent basal bands and narrower apical ones as well, basal segment bright testaceous with scattered flat white scales ; border bristles pale ; venter dark with scattered creamy white scales all over. Legs mottled with brown and creamy white scales, the femora and tibiae with more pale scales than the tarsi, the venter of all the segments pale scaled ; ungues thick, equal uniserrated. Wings (Plate I) rather densely scaled with brown and creamy scales, giving the veins a mottled appearance ; first submarginal cell considerably longer and narrower than the second posterior cell its base about level with that of the latter, its stem about half the length of the cell ; stem of the second posterior cell nearly as long as the cell ; supernumerary and mid cross-veins meet at an angle, the posterior not quite its own length distant from the mid, scales at the base of the veins creamy. Halteres with pale stem and fuscous knob. Length : 6 to 6'5 mm. Habitat: Sfax, Tunis (BIRO, 1903). Observations. Described from five perfect j 's one dissected and mounted in balsam. They are large conspicuous Mosquitoes looking like Culex cantans MEIG. etc., which have densely scaled wings and similar palpi. The complete speckeling of the abdomen, legs, wings and palpi should at once separate it from all other known Culicidse. It is best placed in this genus but the $ palpi are apparently only 2-jointed, the 2 basal joints being fused. Genus TAENIOBHYNCHUS ARRIB. Dipt. Arg. p. 47 (1899) ARRIBALZAGA ; Monogr. Culicid. II. p. 190 (1901) THEOBALD. 1. Taeniorhynchus acer WALK. List. Brit. Mus. p. 2. WALKER; Monogr. Culicid. II. p. 211 (1901) THEOBALD. A large series from the following localities : Brisbane, Queensland (BIRO, 1900); and the following places in New Guinea: Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen, 1896; Mount Hansemann, Astrolabe Bay 1901 and Yomba 1901 ( BÍRÓ). This species has also been recorded from Bupengary, Queensland and New Zealand.
